East Africa and the Horn of Africa
Subtitle: "defending the defenders": a human rights defenders conference
Publisher: Amnesty International, International Secretariat
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 33
Other titles: Defending the defenders: a human rights defenders conference.
Description: "This is a report of a Human Rights Defenders Conference held in Entebbe, Uganda, from 30 October to 4 November 2005. The conference was jointly organized by Amnesty International and the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defender Project (EHAHRDP), based in Kampala. Oxfam Novib and Centre for Refugee Studies also participated in the production of the report. The report contains testimonies by human rights defenders of arbitrary arrest in Ethiopia, kidnapping and death threats in Somalia, forced female genital mutilation in Kenya, and persecution of a lesbian activist in Uganda."--Publisher website.
Notes: "AI Index: AFR 04/001/2006."

"Embargoed for: 30 June 2006."